'77°' Points, boreS. W. diflant five leagues. Our longitude from
i — i Botany Bay was 19' E. In the afternoon, we faw fmoke in
.Monday y. feverai piaces upon the fhore, and in the evening, found the
variation to be 8° 25' E. At this time we were between two
and three miles from the fhore, in twenty-eight fathom;
Tucfday8 and at noon the next day, we had not advanced one Hep to
the northward. We Hood off fhore, with the winds northerly,
till twelve at night, and at the diftance of about five
leagues, had feventy fathom ; at the diftance of fix leagues
we had eighty fathom, which is the extent of the foundings
; for at the diftance of ten leagues^ we had no ground
with 150 fathom.
Tiurfdayio. The wind continuing northerly, till the morning of the
ictli, we continued to ftand in and.off the fhore, with very
little change of fituation in other refpedts; but a gale .then
fpringing up at S. W. we made the beft of our way along the
fhore to the northward. At fun-rife, our latitude was 330 z'S,
and the variation 8° E. At nine in the forenoon, we palled
a remarkable hill, which flood a little way inland, and fome-
vyhat refembled the crown of a hat: and at noon, our latitude,
by obfervation, was 32° 53'S. and our longitude 208’
' W. We .were about two leagues diftant from the land,
which extended from N. 41 E. to S. 41 W., and a fmall round
rock, or ifland, •which lay clofe under the land, bore S. 82
W. diftant between three and four leagues. Ac four-in the
afternoon, we paffed, at the diftance of about a mile, a low
rocky point, which I called P o i n t S t e p h e n s , on the north .
fide of which is an inlet, whjch I called P o u t St e p h e n s :
this inlet appeared to me, from the maft head, to be fhel-
tered from all winds. It lies in latitude 32” 40', longitude
207* 51', and at the entrance are three fmall iflands, two of
which are high ; and on the main near the fhore are fome-
high round hills, which at a diftance appear like iflands. In
paffmg
palling this bay, at the diftance of two or three miles from
the fhore, our foundings were from thirty-three to twenty-
feven fathom, from which I conjectured that there muft be
a fufficient depth of water within it. At a little diftance
within land, we faw fmoke in feveral places ; and at half an
hour paft five, the northermoft land in fight bore N. 36 E.
and Point Stephens S. W. diftant four leagues. Our foundings
in the night, were from forty-eight to fixty-two fathom,
at the diftance of between three and four leagues from the
fhore, which made in two hillocks. This Point I called
C a p e H a w k e : it lies in the latitude of 32° 14' S., longitude
207° 30' W.; and at four o’clock in the morning bore W.
diftant about eight miles 5 at the fame time the northermoft
land in fight bore N. 6 E. and appeared like an ifland. At
noon, this land bore N. 8 E. the northermoft land in fight
N. 13 E. and Cape Hawke S. 37 W. Our latitude, by obfervation,
was 320 a' S. which was twelve miles to the fouth-
ward of that given by the lo g ; fo that probably we had a
current fetting that w a y : by the morning amplitude and
azimuth, the variation was 90 10'E. During our run along
the fhore, in the afternoon, we faw fmoke in feveral places,
at a little diftance from the beach, and one upon the top of
a hill, which was the firft we had feen upon elevated ground
fince our arrival upon the coaft. At fun-fet, we had twenty-
three fathom, at the diftance of a league and an half from
the fhore: the northermoft land then bore N. 13 E. and three
hills, remarkably large and high, lying contiguous to each
other, and not far from the beach, N. N. W. As thefe hills
bore fome refemblance to each other, we called' them the
T h r e e B r o t h e r s , They lie in latitude 310 40', and may be
feen fourteen or fixteen leagues. We fleered N. E. by N. all
night, having from twenty-feven to fixty-feven fathom, at
the diftance of between two and fix leagues from the fhore.
Vgl. III. o At
Thurfday io.
Friday 11.